On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Theodore Tso wrote:
We have the staging tree because it's a widely acknowledged belief that
kernel code in the tree tends to improve over time compared to code
that's sitting out of the tree. Are you disputing that belief?
Kernel code in the kernel source tree improves; because that's where it
will eventually end up --- linked against the kernel.
There are all sorts of dynamics in play that don't necessarily apply to
userspace code.
Otherwise we could just link in all of the userspace code in a Linux
distribution and magically expect it will get better, eh? Not!
You just yourself said it's about the people. Why do you now think it's
about linking against the kernel? I know I have hacked on various parts of
the kernel that I have never linked to my kernel.
Pekka
